In his final address to the Saban Forum on Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry indicated that Israel was ultimately to blame for the failure of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians during the Obama administration.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night phoned Secretary of State John Kerry to tell him Israel expected the Obama Administration not to change its policy and promote or support a vote on the Israeli-PA conflict at the UN Security Council between the November 8 vote and the inauguration of the next US president.

US President Barack Obama will attend the state funeral of Israel’s ninth president Shimon Peres on Friday. Also attending are Bill and Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis, Prince Charles, French President François Hollande, and many more foreign leaders.

Air conditioners, refrigerators and other devices which use cooling agents pose as great a threat to the world as terrorism and the Islamic State, said Secretary of State John Kerry in Vienna on Friday.